A Fort Dodge car collector is now friends with comedian Jerry Seinfeld, all thanks to a quirky old Saab.

A Fort Dodge car collector is now friends with comedian Jerry Seinfeld, all thanks to a quirky old Saab.

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Updated: 10:30 PM CST Dec 8, 2014

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WEBVTT New at 10. A Fort Dodge car collector is now friends with Comedian Jerry Seinfeld. As KCCI's Todd Magel shows us.. it's all thanks to a quirky old Saab... and an unusual internet show about cars and comedians. < Hi I'm Jerry Seinfield, and this is comedians in cars getting coffee> Comedian Jerry Seinfield loves cars which explains his internet show. < That is a beautiful car> And in this new episode former Saturday night live actor Fred Armisen and Seinfeld ride around Portland oregon in a 1965 Saab. < The stick shift is on the column> A saab that comes from Fort Dodge and the collection of Tom Donney Motors, < IT was just one of those moments where opportunity and preparedness meet and you get kind of lucky Donney has a showroom full of saabs and has collected them for decades. This one is unusual because the tiny engine runs on a mix of gas and oil. < This has oil injection, similar to what you'd have in a snowmobile, a lawn boy or a jet ski. That sort of thing> So when the Seinfield people called at the last minute, Donney was ready. They told him the first Saab they wanted to use for the show was no longer available. So Donney and his son trailered the car to Portland, met the production crew and met a very shy and quiet Jerry Seinfield. <we did get to meet him.He takes a little bit to warm up to. But as soon as you start taking about cars, he's truly a car guy Donney actually got to drive the car on camera for some of the wide shots. < It's a great experience for a common person to be around all the type of thing and to be around the people who do that. They were all awesome. The whole experience was a positive < eventually the Saab made it back here to FT dodge in one piece. Jerry Seinfield, didn't offer to buy it, and we asked it is still for sale < It would have to be the right amount of money, but anything could happen> And it might be worth a bit more , now that Jerry Seinfield has given his approval. < it sounds weird, it smells weird, it runs weird, if you don't like weird, saab is not for you> Todd Magel KCCI 8 news, Iowa's news leader. Tom Donney did sell a Saab to Jey Leno. And he got to meet him when he delivered it to Los Angeles.

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A Fort Dodge car collector is now friends with comedian Jerry Seinfeld, all thanks to a quirky old Saab.